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833Technology blues
Despite the brainwashing that was once taught in our schools (no one’s sure what they teach now) the name of one Ned...
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Photo withdrawn after child prostitution claim
A PHOTOGRAPH of a semi-naked prepubescent girl by internationally renowned photographer Jan Saudek was removed from the Ballarat International Foto Biennale on...
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Another digger dies
An Australian soldier serving with Mentoring Task Force 3 has been killed in action in Afghanistan. The soldier, from the Townsville-based 2nd...
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Eschew the imagination of a Wettex and save the pulp mill
A little of the passion and understanding of the need to preserve the past that is demonstrated in the story above (Leo...
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Tampa … and the loss of Labor’s soul
Can it really be that long ago. Ten years. Tampa time … that shameful moment in Australian history when then Prime Minister...
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The crisis of the global economy. Was it a planned disintegration?
“The biggest propaganda story this decade is the fiction of the Japanese and now Chinese workers are thrifty folks who want to...
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Red Dog … and Me. Don’t miss Kimisis
RED DOG. Now that’s got your attention. A bit in the way writing SEX generates the cliche of instant alertness. What about...
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Flying in the face of old age: Buck and Joan in the Wars
Buck and Joan Emberg have had the horrifying expience of being sick on a 22 hour flight from Sydney to Duluth, Minnesota....
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Walking in the footsteps of Archbishop Romero
It’s dark now, as I begin chatting to David outside his home in Los Marranitos, a rural village in the Department of...
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‘Not a likely scenario son’
The mid-70’s were interesting Tasmanian Times (pardon the pun). I was an Examiner reporter and the word ‘conserve’ was making its way...
